Mozarteum University of Salzburg

Called The Mozarteum, originally " Cathedral Music Society and the Mozarteum ", was founded on 22 April 1841 in Salzburg as a music school and the collection of old Mozart documents. Today, the term Mozarteum be understood three separate bodies:

  • The Mozarteum University - an art school for music, drama and related subjects
  • The International Mozarteum Foundation - concert organizer, music collection and research institute
  • The Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg - the symphony orchestra of the city and province of Salzburg
  • 2.1 history
  • 2.2 activities

University Mozarteum

History

In 1880 the Public School of Music Mozarteum the forerunner of today's Art University was founded by former simple types of schools. 1914, the School of Music was recognized as a conservatory with public law. In 1939, this conservatory has been renamed Empire Mozarteum School. After 1945, she was named Academy of Music. In 1953, the university today to the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts "Mozarteum" in Salzburg. In 1970, the Academy was again renamed to college and was now called the University of Music and Dramatic Arts "Mozarteum" in Salzburg. Since 1998, ie the university Mozarteum University of Salzburg.

Training directions

The Mozarteum University has, among many courses on musical instrument (bowed, plucked, percussion and keyboard instruments, cath. U Protestant church music) Voice, Conducting, Composition and Music Theory. The each in the areas of professional concert and music education ( teacher training ), but also a training for acting, directing and stage design. In the area of ​​teacher training in addition to music education ( Instrumental-/Gesangspädagogisches study, IGP) are located also music and physical education, art education, business education and textile design. The Mozarteum University has the right to award doctorates ( Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D. ), the related doctoral program is in the Departments of Musicology and Music Pedagogy settled ( in Salzburg and Innsbruck).

Facilities

The main building of the University Mozarteum located in the New Town in the Old Borromäum next to the Mirabell Gardens in Rainer road. This was adapted in 1972 and created a new building, which was closed on suspicion of carcinogenic pollutants in 1998. In mid-January 2002 was Governor Franz Schauberger declare that the renovation and partial construction of the Old Borromäums after about a year of negotiations with the BIG and the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture were secured substantially. From 2002, a new, lighter and more open annex was created. Also, the main building was reopened after extensive renovations in September 2006.

The Fronburg castle houses next to a dorm the Orff Institute of the Orff -Schulwerk. In Innsbruck, a Expositur (branch ) is conducted with the Department of Music Education.

Facilities of the University are the

  • Departments in the field of music Conducting / Composition and Music Theory
  • Keyboard Instruments
  • String Studies
  • Wind and percussion instruments
  • Singing
  • Music Theatre
  • Musicology
  • Music Education in Salzburg
  • Music Education in Innsbruck
  • Acting / Directing
  • Set and costume design, film and exhibition architecture
  • Fine Arts, Art and Craft Education

And the Institutes

  • Early Music Institute
  • Institute for New Music
  • Institute of Mozart operas interpretation
  • Sándor Végh Institute of Chamber Music
  • Institute of Musical Reception and interpretation of history
  • Leopold Mozart Institute of Highly Talented Students
  • Carl Orff Institute for Elemental Music and Dance Education
  • Institute for Game Research
  • LIA - Lab Inter Arts

International Mozarteum Foundation

History

For the purpose of promotion of music gifted the International Mozarteum Foundation was founded in 1880. In 1881 the acquisition of the Mozarteum by the International Mozarteum Foundation, founded in 1870, which at the same time changed its name to International Mozarteum Foundation took place. In 1931 the establishment of the Central Institute for Research Mozart followed. By 1953 it appeared the New Mozart Edition.

The Mozarteum Foundation has its headquarters in the 1914 created by the Munich architect Richard Berndl Foundation building ( with the Wiener Saal of the Mozarteum ). Also in the nearby house of the Great Hall of the Mozarteum, designed by the same architect, is one of the Mozarteum Foundation. This hall is one of the most famous and popular concert halls in Salzburg and is one of the venues of the Salzburg Festival.

Activities

Through initiatives in three key areas: concerts, museums and science, the International Mozarteum Foundation builds a bridge between the preservation of Mozart's heritage and contemporary culture.

  • In concert, the ISM since 1956, always held the artistic " Mozart Week " in the time of Mozart's birthday on January 27; since 2005, she also organizes the contemporary " Festival Dialogues".
  • In the two Mozart museums ( Mozart's Birthplace and Mozart's Residence ), the visitors passed through the original Mozart rooms and get an impression of the daily life of the Mozart family. Here are the rooms furnished by the architect and cartoonist shows " everyday life of a Child Prodigy," "Mozart at the Theater" and " The Mozarts - a family presents itself ."
  • In the area of ​​science include the autograph collection with around 300 Mozart manuscripts, also begun in 1954, historical- critical edition of the "New Mozart Edition " (NMA ) was transferred here in 2007 completed, in the "Digital Mozart Edition " (DME ) to find their continuation.
  • At the graduate of the Mozarteum Foundation awards named after Bernhard Paumgartner Bernhard Paumgartner Medal for outstanding interpretation of Mozart 's works.

Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra

The Mozarteum Orchestra was originally the Orchestra of the students of the music school and the later Academy Mozarteum. In 1939, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg sparked by the former Academy and became the orchestra of selected professional musicians and independent institution. In 1958 it was extended to the symphony of the city and province of Salzburg. Since autumn 2004 Ivor Bolton has been chief conductor of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. The home of the renowned ensemble is located in the orchestra house next to the old Petersbrunnhof in Nonntal.

Rectors

  • Taux Alois (1841-1861)
  • Hans Bat (1861-1868)
  • Otto Bach (1868-1880)
  • Johann Friedrich Hummel (1880-1907)
  • Josef Reiter (1907-1911)
  • Paul Graener (1911-1914)
  • Franz Ledwinka (1914-1917)
  • Bernhard Paumgartner (1917-1939)
  • Clemens Krauss (1939-1945)
  • Bernhard Paumgartner (1946-1959)
  • Eberhard Preußner (1959-1964)
  • Heinz Scholz ( 1964)
  • Robert Wagner (1965-1971)
  • Paul of Schilhawsky (1971-1979)
  • Franz Richer Herf (1979-1983)
  • Günther Bauer (1983-1991)
  • Wolfgang Roscher (1991-1995)
  • Klaus Ager (1995-2000)
  • Roland Haas (2000-2005)
  • Reinhart von Gutzeit (since 2006)
  • From October 1, 2014 Siegfried Mauser

Known students

  • Andreas Altmann ( b. 1949 ), travel writer
  • Sven -Eric Bechtholf (* 1957), actor
  • Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989), writer
  • Hans Brenner (1938-1998), actor
  • Marios Joannou Elia (born 1978 ), composer (until 2005)
  • Sebastian Feicht (* 1973), actor
  • Heino Ferch ( b. 1963 ), actor ( to 1987 )
  • Herbert Feuerstein ( born 1937 ), comedian and entertainer ( 1956-1958, no degree)
  • Herbert Fux (1927-2007), actor
  • Walter Gabriel ( singer ), ( b. 1953 )
  • Clemens Hagen (born 1966 ), cellist
  • Veronika Hagen -di Ronza (* 1963), violist
  • Leopold Hager ( b. 1935 ), conductor ( 1949-1957 )
  • Ulrike Hofbauer, singer (soprano )
  • Udo Jürgens ( born 1934 ), singer and composer
  • Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989), conductor (1916-1926)
  • Kristian Kiehling (* 1976), actor
  • Joan of Koczian ( born 1933), actress
  • Gustav Kuhn ( born 1945 ), conductor and director
  • Horst Lohse ( born 1943 ), composer ( 1970-1972 )
  • Stefan Maass ( b. 1965 ), actor
  • Karl Merkatz (* 1930), actor
  • Robert Meyer ( born 1953 ), actor
  • Miroslav Nemec (born 1954 ), actor
  • Michael Popp, a specialist in medieval music
  • Max Prodinger (* 1976), tenor
  • Tessa Josef (* 1956), drummer and composer
  • Seda Röder ( born 1980 ), pianist (2001-2006)
  • Ariane Roth ( born 1974 ), musician and theater actress
  • Benjamin Schmid ( b. 1968 ), violinist
  • Georg Schluchter (1952-2001), actor
  • Andrea Spatzek ( born 1959 ), actress
  • Christian Spatzek (* 1956), actor
  • Sebastian Stroebel (* 1977), actor
  • Laurence Traiger ( born 1956 ), composer
  • Clement Vereno ( b. 1957 ), composer
  • Kurt Weinzierl (1931-2008), actor (1948-1951)
  • Gerhard Westbahnhof ( b. 1923 ), composer ( 1940-1947 )
  • Thomas Zehetmair ( b. 1961 ), violinist

Well-known professors

Honorary carrier

  • Wilhelm Backhaus (Honorary Member )
  • Günther G. Bauer (Honorary Member )
  • Luciano Berio (Honorary Member )
  • Cesar Bresgen (Honorary Member )
  • Johann Nepomuk David (Honorary Member )
  • Hertha Firnberg (Honorary Member )
  • Paul Hindemith (Honorary Member )
  • Herbert von Karajan (Honorary Member )
  • Ernst Krenek (Honorary Member )
  • Franz Ledwinka (Honorary Member )
  • Hans Leygraf (Honorary Member )
  • Rolf Liebermann ( Honorary Member )
  • Carl Orff (Honorary Member )
  • Bernhard Paumgartner (Honorary Member )
  • Eberhard Preussner (Honorary Member )
  • Ruggiero Ricci (Honorary Member )
  • David Ritchie Robertson ( Honorary Member )
  • Fortunato Santini (Honorary Member )
  • Paul Schilhawsky (Honorary Member )
  • Heinz Scholz ( Honorary Member )
  • Sandor Vegh (Honorary Member )
  • Gerhard Westbahnhof (Honorary Member )
  • Meinhard von Zallinger (Honorary Member )
  • Martin Brenner ( honorary citizen )
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt ( Honorary Doctorate )
  • Max W. Schlereth (Honorary Senator )
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